Cherub on Propeller

Doors Open Day at the Municipal Buildings, now serving as an incubator for tech start-ups. This window celebrates Literature, Art & Science. The Science chap is sitting on an aeroplane propeller because the Barnwell brothers made Scotland's first proper powered flight nearby. 

The extra shows one of the more splendid rooms. The building opened in 1918. On the one hand, it is huge with high ceilings and lots of natural light. On the other, at a time when Modern was beginning to take off elsewhere, loads of its references harp back to an old, romanticised Scotland. 

The words on the beam say, I think, in modern English, The more I stand on open height, my faults more subject are to sight.